Prepayment-car.



c. c. HUNICKE. PREPAYMENT CAR.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 5, 1912.

Patented A r'. 6, 1915.

wi/tmeooeo THE NORRIS PETERS CO.. PHOTQLITHQ. WASHINGTON. D

Y., ASSIGNOR T0 PBEPAYMENT CAR. SALES CORPORATION OF WEST VIRGINIA.

CLARENCE C. HUNICKE, OF NEW YORK, N. OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A

COMPANY,

PREPAYMENT-CAR.

Patented Apr. 6, 1915.

vert the cars already in use into fare prepayment type a considerable expense of recon- 1,134,387, Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 5, 19 12. Serial No. 718,623.

Toa'ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLARENCE C. HUNICKE, a citizen of the United States, re-

siding at New York, in the county and State of New York, have made a certain new and useful Invention in Prepayment-Cars, of which the following is a specification.

One object of the invention is to provide a passenger car for street or other railways embodying means which are simple in construction and arrangement, whereby the collection of fares as the passengers enter the car is facilitated.

Another object of the invention is to secure more platform space than is possible with the ordinary prepayment car.

Other objects of the invention will ap pear more fully hereinafter.

The invention consists substantially in the construction, combination, location and relative arrangement of parts, all as will be more fully hereinafter set forth, as shown in the accompanying drawings, and finally pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings and to the various views and reference signs appearing thereon: Figure 1 is a broken view in horizontal section of one end of a passenger car showing the application thereto of features embodying the principles of my invention.

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing a modified form of door arrangement ,that is capable of use in connection with my invention. Fig. 3 is a broken view in vertical section of the door operating mechanism.

The same part is designated by the same reference sign wherever it occurs throughout the several views.

The problem of safely handling the street car trafiic while at the same time securing rapid transit, and especially in the larger cities, has become a very serious and difficult one. Many means have been resorted to in order to solve this problem. The method generally adopted and known as the pay-asyou-enter or pay within, or prepayment, type of car, involves the use of various arrangements of railings or other means to divide the platform into entrance and exit passageways, the conductor being stationed so as to collect the fares from the incoming passengers as they enter. In order to construction is entailed since room must be provided on the platform for both the doors and the railings or other dividing means. This requires that the car roof and floor be extended to provide for the required increase of platform area, and in some cases the whole car in a large measure must be rebuilt to adapt it for prepayment use.

My invention relates to passenger cars of the class described and it contemplates means whereby the fares of entering passengers are collected as they enter, whereby the use of dividing rails or barriers on the platform is avoided, and whereby the doors themselves, when open, form the necessary passage separating barriers thereby enabling the ordinary cars to be readily and at a slight expense converted into cars of the fare prepayment type.

In carrying out my invention, I propose to arrange the doors so that, when opened, they divide the platform space into separate exit and entrance passageways and form a space between the doors for the conductor so that he can collect fares from the entering passengers.

It is obvious that any suitable type of door operating mechanism and any convenient type of door can be used suitable to the various styles and types of cars.

While, therefore, I have shown and will now describe my invention in a preferred embodiment thereof it is to be understood that I do not desire to be limited or restricted in respect to the specific details shown.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, reference sign 1, is the car body; 2 is one of the vestibule ends thereof; 3, wall seats. As shown, the car is provided with a vestibule or platform having the side doors 6, 6, and 7, 7 on opposite sides thereof, any convenient type of platform side steps 8, may be employed.

In the form shown in Fig. 1, the doors 6,-

6', are at the entrance side of the platform while the doors 7 7' are on the opposite or normally closed side of the platform, the end of the car shown being, in the case of the usual prepayment type of car, the rear end, the doors 7 7 in that case being ordinarily kept closed while the doors 6, 6, are operated to open and closed positions as occa-v 1, swings, out over the platform'spaceand approximately in the direction of'the length of the car. The door 26, may be regarded as the exit door and is hinged at one edge upon a vertical axis 31, placed adjacent the side of the car.

As shown indotted lines, in opening, this door swings inwardly. The doors 6, 6, are hinged at their ad'jacent'edges upon vertical shafts 32, 33, which are positioned at approximately the midwidth of the platform yside opening. As shown in dotted lines in F 1 the doors 6, 6", swing inwardlyover and transversely'across the platform in opening. The construction and arrangement and method of operation of the doors 7, 7 is not of consequence 'so far as my present invention is concerned. y c v From the foregoing arrangement it will be seen that by opening the doors 6, 6, and

27, asshown in dotted lines, the said doors I assume relative positions over the platform which'enable them to form barriers or en: trance and exit passage separating means without requiring the employment of any special barrier for that purpose. 'Of course the presence or absence of the exit'door 26 is not of material consequence as far asconcerns the function of the doors'6, 6,'and 27 in forming 'sa geways. acrossthe platform. When the doors 6, 6 and 27, are closed, the entire area of the platform is available for the accommodation of passengers. I

In Fig. 2, l have shown the entrance doorway from the platformto the interior of the car, controlled by;the "doors 27, 27' respectively carried by vertical shafts 30, 34. In this case only the section 27 of the door cooperates in forming the passage separating means 7 over and across the platform, as shown in full lines in'Fig. 2. In the ar-- rangement I have also. shown the door 26,

as opening outwardly.

When the doors 27, .6 and 6, are opened as above explained, they not only serve to form passage separating barriers across the platform, but they alsoafli'ord a convenient station for the conductor adjacent the proxi- .mate edges ofthe opened doors which form an inclosure for the conductor, and from. which station the conductor collects the fares of passengers as they enter.

' It may sometimes be desirable to provide form of swinging separate entrance and [exit pas- ,7

to control their operation; from the fare prepayment station. I have shown an arrangement for accomplishing this resultfwhich is simple and eflicient, wherein a controhst'and' is located on the platform at a'poin't between the proximate edges of the doors 6, 6', and '27 when said doors are in open position. This control stand includes the shaft 23, having an operating handle 19-, and arranged "to extend'longitu'dinally through a sleeve 24:,

the latter having an operating handle 20 at its upper end.. This sleeve also passes longitudinally through, another sleeve 25, which in turn is also provided with an operating handle 18 at its'up'per. end.

J The members- 23, 2 l,25,'are respectively connectedat' thelr Ii lower ends to devices for ating the doors 6, '6, shown the lower edges of the member 23, is connected through crank: arm' 16, "and link 31, to a crankarm 21" on'the shaft 30of; the door 27, whereby said door maybe normally opened andcl'osed rby the conductor at the Similarly the sleeve fare prepayment point,

4:,is connected bya'rm 1'5,"link 29, and crank arm sleeve 25 is controlling or0pjer and 27. In the form'- 1 l, to:shaft 32 of door 6;wh-ile connected by crank arm 17, link" 30 and crank arm12, to shafti'33 of door 6.

By this arrangement the 'variousidoors may be independently operated orcontrolled from the fare prepayment station; sired the exit doors 26 6,-maysbe coincidently operated. I Tliisresult maybe accom plished by a link-connection 32, "between crank arms 13 and 14,0 1 the shafts *33' and 31, respectively,rof said'doors; v

If desired afare'box 28, may be associated with the control sta'ndfi From the foregoing description it will be seen that Iprovide an exceedinglysimple arrangement of fare prepayment c'ar wherein the entering and leavingpa'sse ngers are separated into two different streams without Y providing any auxiliary barrier or passage separating means other than'that afforded by the doors themselves,"thereby"leaving the entire platform space available for the accommodation' of passengers.= This'is an ost advantageous feature since passengers may board the car at a crowded corner, for instance, form and the entrance or platformside' door closed the car started iaheadtowardthe next street crossing before all the enteringpassengers have I paid their fares and passed" on inside the car. This enables rapid" transit with closer time schedules tobe maintained and expedites the operation of the car.

Having now set forth the object and nature of my invention and various arrangeand be accommodatedf'on"thev'plat- I ments embodying the f principles th'ereof,

what I claim as new and useful and of my own invention, and desire" to 'secure' by Letters Patent is':

1. A car having a platform, an entrance and an exit door separating the platform from the interior of the car, doors for said doorways, said entrance door mounted to swing, in opening, outwardly over the platform to form a barrier to divide the platform into separate entrance and exit passages.

2. A car having a platform, an entrance and an exit doorway separating the platform from the interior of the car, doors for said doorways, said entrance door mounted to swing, in opening, outwardly over the platform to form a barrier to divide the platform into separate entrance and exit passages, and means for operating said entrance door.

3. A car having a loading and unloading platform, a doorway in the side of said platform, an entrance doorway from the platform to the interior of the car, swinging doors for said doorways, said doors, when swung into open position extending across the platform and cooperating to form a barrier to divide the platform area into separate entrance and exit passages.

4. A car having a loading and unloading platform, a doorway in the side of said platform, an entrance doorway from the platform to the interior of the car, swinging doors for said doorways, said doors, when swung into open position extending across the platform at an angle to each other with their free edge adjacent each other, and cooperating to form a barrier to divide the platform area into separate entrance and exit passages, and means located adjacent thefree edges of said doors when in open posltion for independently controlling the movements of said doors.

5. A car having a platform, an exit door from the car to the platform an exit door from the platform to the street, and means for simultaneously moving said doors to open or closed position.

6. A car having a platform, an entrance and exit door between the platform and the interior of the car and an entrance door at the side of the platform, said entrance doors, when in an open position, extending angularly to each other across the platform and cooperating to form a barrier to divide the platform into separate entrance and exit passages.

7. A car having a loading and unloading platform, a door separating said platform from the seating space of the car, a door controlling the street opening of the platform, said doors mounted, respectively, to swing, in opening, the one outwardly and the other inwardly over or across the platform to bring their free edges into proximity to each other, and, when in open posi tion, forming a barrier to divide the platform area into separate passages.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of the subscribing witnesses, on this 29th day of August A. D. 1912.

CLARENCE C. HUNICKE.

Witnesses G. A. MoGRA'rH, S. E. DARBY.

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Washington, D. G. 

